Family court is unique among its other variants (criminal, administrative, etc.) in that the rules of evidence may be applied variously in deference to what is best for the children.

This has the effect of making any outcome in any Family Court vulnerable to manipulation and misrepresentation. In cases where Parental Alienation is present, this vulnerability is routinely exploited, making the parents status in this scenario especially precarious.

For example, when the court is faced with an allegation that one parent has abused a child, and this allegation is not carefully critiqued, the system opens itself up to limitless distortion.

I have personally witnessed countless examples of innocent parents being treated by the court as being abusive, when this was simply not the case. As any of these parents will attest, once this label has been acquired, it is very difficult to erase it in the eyes of the court. The abuse allegation may be ruled as being "unfounded," however the cloud of suspicion will probably remain, causing the court to hesitate to allow more time between that parent and that child. Any parents who have experienced this are nodding right now.

One of the most effective, yet still the least used strategies to correct this, is to "litigate the false allegation."

By this, we mean that the unjustly accused parent must do more than merely show that they did not commit the abuse. They should then go on to affirmatively argue that the making of the false allegation of abuse by the other parent, is itself evidence of pathological parenting.

They should then go on to show that this spurious misuse of the system is designed to actually remove the child from the accused parent for purposes of gaining advantage in the custody dispute.

This "second step," the litigating of the false abuse allegation is rarely pursued however. The omission of this step often spells the difference between the truth being revealed, or it being obfuscated.

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I agreecand habe been saying this for decades. In addition, I truly believed more cases need to be filed in civil court malicious prosecution and intentional infliction of emotional distress as well as defamation, slander and perjury.

Enough is Enough!!

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Patty

4/5/2018 03:02:16 pm

Yes lets she them I have proof he lied and slandered

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T Ross

12/12/2016 05:44:02 pm

I get that we all have to make a living to feed, well, our children, if we're still lucky enough to have them after PA. But as a parent advocate who holds an MBA in Healthcare, I could not see myself charging already indigent parents who so desperately need these services. It seems almost hypocritical at its core. We need more experts in the courtrooms and overseeing their unethical counterparts already making huge profits off of the children that unnecessarily and needlessly suffer the most traumatic effects of PAS.

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SEAN MALONEY

4/7/2018 06:04:30 pm

EXCELLANT ARTICLE LAYING OUT THE PROBLEM WITH THE FAMILY COURT PROCESS(I AM ALWAYS AMUSED BY THE USUAL ALLEGATION “HE WAS REALLY VOCAL AND DEFENSIVE AND BOY DID HE SOUND ANGRY!” ; AS IF THIS WOULD BE A SURE SIGN OF AN ABUSIVE PERSON AS OPPOSED TO A TRAUMATIZED PERSON PROTESTING THEIR INNOCENTS OVER FALSE ALLEGATIONS AS THEY FIGHT TO HAVE S LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR CHILD WITHOUT THE UMBRELLA OF SUSPICION AND GOSSIP HANGING OVER THEM IN THE COMMUNITY).

So true..
It should be standard practice -particular in divorce cases- to have a family court judge demand police (if not already done) to conduct a thourough investigation of the allegation towards a parent and by starting this investigation with a psychiatric personality scan/evaluation by an experienced (and trained in PA dynamics too) psychiatrist/clinical psychologist of both parents, the parent (with the allegation towards the other parent) to be first examined.
There should also be a severe repercussion by law when investigation makes it clear that the allegation was false and very probably intended to harm the other parent (to gain (sole or more) custody over the kids).

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Cheryl

1/13/2019 08:57:33 pm

How about the Alienator telling the kids to go tell everybody.. your teachers, your friends.. Everybody that your mother abuses you.. That right there is the pathological part. He was in such a rage- he was almost serious about me abusing them I think.. I can only imagine what he has been through, The man I married was never coming back.

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J. Michael Bone, PhD.

Dr. Bone is an experienced consultant for cases involving Parental Alienation and has spent over 25 years working with high conflict divorce as a therapist, expert witness, mediator, evaluator and consultant, both nationally and internationally.